Sessions and fees
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For entrepreneurs and business owners, CEOs and senior executives, executive peer groups, spouses and partners, next-generation leaders, general corporate audiences, and boards and nonprofit leaders.
Drawing on a fifteen-year personal quest and neuroscientific research, The Art of Awe explores how beauty and extraordinary architectural experiences can transform us. Audiences gain fresh insights into the power of awe and how art and architecture can open us to transcendence.
- A deeper understanding of how beauty and awe can transform our perception of ourselves and the world.
- An ability to recognize the conditions that invite extraordinary experiences.
- A fresh appreciation of how art and architecture can open us to meaning and transcendence.
Session details and terms
Travel and logistics: Based in San Francisco, happy to travel if there is alignment between the audience's interest and my expertise. Travel is not included in my fee. Promotion: None proposed. Required purchases: None. Attendee follow-up: Only with attendees who choose to hear from Julio. Sign-up sheet for anyone who wants to follow up with inquiries.
Everyday, Happiness & the Sacred. Architectural Reflections
$1,500
For entrepreneurs and business owners, executive peer groups, spouses and partners, families and children, general corporate audiences, and boards and nonprofit leaders.
Discover how architecture can either imprison us in daily routines or awaken us to the beauty, meaning, and sacredness of ordinary life. This talk offers a fresh perspective on happiness and how to rediscover the extraordinary within the everyday.
- Recognize how everyday spaces shape your routines and sense of well-being.
- Practice noticing beauty, meaning, and sacredness in familiar surroundings.
- Identify changes to your surroundings that invite greater presence and enjoyment.
Session details and terms
Travel and logistics: Based in San Francisco, happy to travel if there is alignment between the audience's interest and my expertise. Travel is not included in my fee. Promotion: None proposed. Required purchases: None. Attendee follow-up: None.
Coming Alive: An Architectural Pilgrimage into Presence
Custom quote
For entrepreneurs and business owners, CEOs and senior executives, spouses and partners, next-generation leaders, and boards and nonprofit leaders.
Guided exercises prepare participants for contemplative architectural visits, documented through drawings, notes, photos, or videos and followed by reflection and group discussion. Travel may range from journeys within a city to international destinations.
- A guided architectural pilgrimage inviting deep presence through encounters with extraordinary places.
- Preparation and contemplative visits open participants to beauty, awe, and possible transcendence.
- Destinations are chosen together; no architectural knowledge or religious commitment is required.
Session details and terms
Travel and logistics: Based in San Francisco, happy to travel if there is alignment between the audience's interest and my expertise. Travel is not included in my fee. Promotion: None proposed. Required purchases: Each participant should get a sketchbook ($20), drawing/writing instruments ($10-15), and a camera (a phone camera should be fine). Attendee follow-up: Only with attendees who choose to hear from Julio. Sign-up sheet at the end of the workshop for anyone who wants to go deeper into their experience.
Availability
- Open
- Virtual or local only
- Virtual only
- Not open
Open: Nov 16 to 24, Dec 1 to 13, Jan 10 to Mar 11, 2027, Mar 16 to 24, 2027, Mar 30 to May 29, 2027, and Jun 20 to 30, 2027.Virtual or local only: Dec 14 to 18.Virtual only: Jun 13 to 19, 2027.Not open: Oct 24 to Nov 15, Nov 25 to 30, Dec 19, 2026 to Jan 9, 2027, Mar 12 to 15, 2027, Mar 25 to 29, 2027, and May 30 to Jun 12, 2027.Other dates: generally open.
About Julio
For much of my life, I have been searching for those rare moments when architecture stops us in our tracks, when beauty becomes awe and, somehow, we discover ourselves and the world anew. I spent fifteen years looking for such experiences before one extraordinary encounter changed everything. Since then, I have devoted my work not only to understanding these moments, through phenomenology, neuroscience, and empirical science, but to learning how we might invite transcendence into our lives through art and architecture. My work has been widely published and featured by National Geographic and PBS’s Closer to Truth.
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